Improved brush



J. L. WHITlN-G.

.Brush Handle. No= 101,332. Patent'e'dv'Mar". 29, 1870.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN L. WHITING, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED BRUSH.

Massachusetts, have invented a new and use-` ful Improvement in Brushes; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which'- Figure l denotes a side elevation, Fig. 2 an end view, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, of a brush-handle made in accordance with my invention.

On September 8, 1868, Letters Patent No. 81,966 were granted to me for a new and useful improvement in brushes, such improvement consisting in a peculiar combination and arrangement of a series of projections with other parts of the brush, as described. In carrying out the said improvement as patented the series of proj ections were extended from the butt of the brush-handle, and were to enter and be driven into the mass of bristles arranged within the ferrule; and these projections were to be arranged either in parallel rows or in concentric rows, each projection being tapered either throughout its length or for only a part of its length from its front or outer end.

In carrying out my presentinvention I make use of a series of projections to extend from the butt of the brush-handle; but instead of arranging those projections in rows, either straight, curved, or concentric with each other, I dispose the several projections so that each shall be tubular, (except it be the central one,

' which may be so or not,) and be concentric with each of the others, or extend around or within some one or more of them, with one or more intervals or spaces between such projections.

In the drawings, A denotes the brush-handle, of which ct is the butt thereof, and b c d e aseries of the projections, there being spaces fff between them. Each projection, except it be the central one, is a tube extended around or arranged within another such tube, each being sharpened o r made wedge-shaped at its outer edge. The innermost or central projection, b', may be solid or without a bore, though I. prefer to make it with one. The bristles are to extend into and be cemented within the spaces f and to the projections, and may also extend around the outermost of the latter, such bristles first being arranged in a mass and within a ferrule, and afterward having the projections driven into the mass. This new mode of forming and arranging the pro jections has advantages over that described in my said patent, as it disposes the bristles in tubular masses, each mass being continuous and encompassed by another, or serving to encompass another. By the masses being contin uous or unbroken the bristles are not likely to separate, or are kept together to better advantage while the brush may be in use. Furthermore, the tubular projections not only retain the cement to better advantage, or prevent it from being broken away by the strains of the bristles during use of the brush, but each serves as a cup or vessel to hold the cement while the projections may be in the act of being forced into a mass of bristles.

My invention, as set forth in my-patent hereinbefore mentioned, causes the bristles to be arranged in layers crossing one another; but in my present arrangement of the projections the bristles become disposed in tubular layers, one enveloping or Abeing enveloped thereby that next to it.

For many purposes I can make a better brush by my present improvement than by the other heretofore patented.

Vhat therefore I claim is- A brush-handle provided with one or more tubular buttfprojections extended from it, and to operate with a ferrule in holding the bristles to a handle.

JOHN L. WHITING.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW. 

